As predicted, more Microsoft news from MIX10, and this is some big stuff: Internet Explorer 9. As we all know, Microsoft really let Internet Explorer rot away, allowing competitors to make much better browsers with better standards compliance and performance. With IE9, Microsoft is aiming to not just close that gap - but to overtake the competition. Update: Ars has an in-depth look at the platform preview.

Honestly, I was expecting them to hold their ground at least for another version on the "we aren't going to put effort into an evolving standard" thing. It may not support html5, but the beginnings of css3 support is more then I hoped for.